GUEST COLUMNIST : Want to chase the blues away? Old movies are a good start

By Scott Shackelford scotts@nwarktimes.com

In trying to determine what I should write about this week, it occurred to me that a lot of people I know could use a good laugh. So, with the assistance of the Internet Movie Database, what follows is a series of quotes from some of my favorite movies. If you haven’t seen a couple of the titles listed below in several years, do yourself a favor this week and watch them all over again. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. And maybe you’ll thank me later. Enjoy. Almost Famous Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. Airplane Ted Striker: Surely you can’t be serious. Rumack: I am serious... and don’t call me Shirley. Anchorman Brian Fantana: I think I was in love once. - Wednesday, August 20, 2008

On The Record : Parking spaces for bikes; lines for wheelchairs

GARY BURTON

Ihave always loved motorcycles, even as a child when the closest I could come to one was using a wooden clothes pin to attach a playing card to the spokes of my bicycle. Thrrrruuuummmmmmmm... I even loved the people who own and ride motorcycles because I consider all of them a “brother” of sorts when I ride my own machine down the highway and signal the obligatory wave as we pass in opposite directions. However, the passion for my motorcycle brethren has dropped a few notches recently after witnessing some poor choices made by local riders. While riding my own machine recently to a local department store, I was shocked to see no fewer than four pretty motorcycles parked near the front of the store in the yellow lines that mark the no-parking area beside a handicapped spot. - Wednesday, August 20, 2008

More things that don't make sense

BARBARA WARNER

As promised last month, here is my second column on things that don’t make sense. - Wednesday, August 20, 2008

LETTERS

Leah Houston Siloam Springs

‘Welcome’ to new SCAC director After 20 years as executive director of the Sager Creek Arts Center, Bep Morrison-Barnes has retired. She came to the Arts Center when it was young and searching for its identity. She began with only one desire, to give opportunity to the many talented folks living here in Siloam and the surrounding area to showcase their talents in theater, music and visual arts. SCAC has been acknowledged by the Arkansas Arts Council as a model for arts centers in small towns and rural areas. Bep has impressed them with what she has accomplished with the limited resources that have been available. With her charm, personality, dedication, tact, composure and many hours of hard work, and a large number of volunteers, SCAC has become a well-known part of our community and state. So, it is with great fondness that I say "Thank you, Bep" for long hours of grant writing, hanging art shows, quilt shows, painting scenery, filling in with the theater group when an extra was needed, for the children's w - Wednesday, August 20, 2008